How can it be that California gains 0 seats and Texas gains four?
Posted By: schmed
Because Americans are leaving California as fast as Mexicans and Guatamalans are moving in. They're moving to Texas where pro-business, fiscally responsible policies are creating a boom, while California becomes a public employee union-run economic and social disaster. It's reminiscent of the migration from East to West Germany before the wall went up.

Now the real horserace is on! Here in California, we have a so-called non-partisan citizen's commission to draw new district lines. How about other states? And will convicted felons in Texas be allowed to exert any influence on how those lines are re-drawn? Me hopes not!

Blue states gain, Red states lose.
With GOP controlling redistricting in most of the gaining states, odds are that this will translate into 8 to 10 additional GOP seats beyond what they currently have.
Pelosi's chances of regaining her gov't plane ride home in 2012 just got a lot bleaker.

Blue states gain, Red states lose.
With GOP controlling redistricting in most of the gaining states, odds are that this will translate into 8 to 10 additional GOP seats beyond what they currently have.
Pelosi's chances of regaining her gov't plane ride home in 2012 just got a lot bleaker.

Has any of the idiot congress representatives notice that Texas and Florida are the growth states and coincidentally are two states without an income tax? These are the unintended consequences of raising taxes, people adjust their behavior to avoid them. NJ loses two representatives, Florida gains 2 and me.

What is more important to note is that states which are losing votes are controlled by mostly liberal state governments while those gaining seats are controlled by conservative job growth states. There is your headline.

Tontis wrote:
Now the real horserace is on! Here in California, we have a so-called non-partisan citizen's commission to draw new district lines. How about other states? And will convicted felons in Texas be allowed to exert any influence on how those lines are re-drawn? Me hopes not!
Typically the State Legislature draws the House District boundries. So, if CA has delegated that function to a so-called "non-partisan citizen's commission", then all they've done is delegate the detail work: the State Legislature still has to agree to the new districts drawn up the the "non-partisan citizen's commission".
The bigger issue, as I see it, is that CA's "non-partisan citizen's commission" is just more evidence that CA is a socialist planner's playground.

This isn't nearly the boon to the GOP that it is being portrayed as. Texas picks up 4 but they have to shore up Sessions and Farenthold and create at least one majority Hispanic seat. I think Texas is a 2-2 split. PA has a 12-7 GOP split, and I can't imagine they can do any better than creating a swing district for an incumbent of each party. Ditto Michigan and Missouri. In IL, the Democrats will surely try to get rid of at least one Republican in the Chitown suburbs. LA is losing a seat and it will surely be a Repub because it is an all-GOP delegation outside of the New Orleans slums. In sum, the GOP benefits 2 seats from this reapportionment at best. The "non-partisan" i.e. "Democrat" board in CA is going screw the GOP to the wall, so the GOP may wind up with a net negative from redistricting when all is said and done. The big coup for the GOP is that they will get the opportunity to shore up their shaky incumbents (Ellmers in NC, West in FL, etc.) and consolidate the gains they made in 2010.

Texas 4- Ca.0== People move where the jobs go and the cost of housing is affordable. You would think with all the highly-touted universities in Super liberal, Super Taxed Ca. the genius profs could understand why Texas is King, Ca is dump

California grew by 3,382,308 people, more than any other state except Texas. Even Florida only grew by 2,818,932 people. The reason why California did not gain seats is that its growth rate was only slightly higher than the national average.

Everyone is right, people are fleeing high tax, high regulation liberal states for low tax, low regulation, high growth conservative states. However, the people who move there keep voting like they did where they lived before (liberal) and expect different results. Look at NC. All that migration from the Northeast by people looking to escape high taxes and regulation made NC more liberal, not more conservative as one would have thought. Ditto Colorado and Montana.

California grew by 3,382,308 people, more than any other state except Texas. Even Florida only grew by 2,818,932 people. The reason why California did not gain seats is that its growth rate was only slightly higher than the national average. The California redistricting commission consists of equal numbers of Republicans and Democrats, and neither the governor nor the legislature have any power to approve or veto the commission's decision, so it will be a bipartisan outcome.

And the reason Texas grew in population is at least in part due to the fact that corporations and high paid individuals are moving as fast as they can to Texas to get the low tax rates and to get away from the very high tax rates in California. Predicted years ago by the way!